Address resolution process’ main work is convert IP address to physical address, detecting whether happened address conflicts, performing address reachability testing, etc.Addressresolution protocols (ARP or NDP) are important basic agreements of internet. There have been security problems because the protocol assumes that all nodes arereliable, lead to security problems. This paper reviewed the latest research of address resolution, described the security problems faced by address resolution, made a comparison of existing research methods, analyzed and classification elaborated, proposed a new topic for further study.